Music, travelling, more music, football, more music, languages, even more music, photography, yet more music, history, reading a good book, lots more music etc - you get the picture!
Anyone with an interest in the bands/artists I promote, who are: David Rovics , Esther Bertram , Robb Johnson , Mandry , Haydamaky , Perkalaba etc.
Please click on Krila Sounds to test drive some very interesting folk-rock sounds! To check out Mandry, Ukraine's spearheads for what is termed "Folk-Rock of the Cities" please visit Mandry at Krila Sounds .
Also any bands/artists in the world music or folk-rock/punk music scene who wish to be represented by me are welcome to get in touch, specially all those wonderful Ukrainian bands!
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This is by no means a comprehensive list, but will give you a good idea. You can also check out the many wonderful artists in my friends list . Here goes:
Asian Dub Foundation
Attila The Stockbroker and Barnstormer
Belly
Big Audio Dynamite
Big Black
Billy Bragg
Black 47
Bob Marley
The Clash
The Church
Chumbawamba
Credit To The Nation
Culture
David Bowie
David Rovics
Dissidenten
The Doors
Einstuerzende Neubauten
Esther Bertram
Ewan MacColl
Gallon Drunk
Gogol Bordello
Goran Bregovic
Hamid Baroudi
HARD-Fi
Haydamaky
Houssaine Kili
Jackson Browne
Joe Strummer
Laibach
Lemchaheb
Leon Rosselson
Levellers
Liberty Cage
Lush
Mad Heads
Mandry
Marty Willson-Piper
McDermott's 2 Hours
The Men They Couldn't Hang
Mertviy Piven
Mick Thomas
Neck
Neils Children
Neil Simmonds
New Model Army
Nick Cave
Noujoum Ouazza
Okean Elzy
Perkalaba
Pixiefish
Plach Yeremiyi
The Pogues
Riot Folk Collective
Robb Johnson
Dave Sharp
Shellac
Skryabin
Sonic Youth
Sophia
Spearhead
Swill and the Swaggerband
That Petrol Emotion
The Ukes
The Ukrainians
Tinariwen
Tindersticks
Tracey Curtis
Violent Femmes
Viy
Vopli Vidoplyasova
Warsaw Village Band
Waterboys
Wedding Present
The much anticipated debut solo album by Paul Simmonds , main songwriter and lead guitarist of The Ment They Couldn't Hang , is now available for pre-order !
Mandry "Ne Spy Moya Ridna Zemlya"
A journey through Ukrainian history...
This video can be viewed in its full glory at Google Videos
Esther Bertram and Marlon Klein of Dissidenten perform "Urban Angel" in Kloster, Germany, July 2005
To view this video in its full glory, go to Google Videos
To find out more about Esther Bertram, please visit her official website .
Perkalaba "Horrry" promo video from 1st album
Another loony lot from Ukraine, find out more about them at their official website !
David Rovics and Attila The Stockbroker
live at the Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Port Townsend earlier this year.
You can find more at Google Videos
Haydamaky 's video to their song "Bohuslav"
Get this video and more at Ukraina TV
The Wedding Present in their Ukrainian phase! This was the start to Peter Solowka's band The Ukrainians and how I discovered Ukrainian folk-punk music.
Len Liggins, "The Legendary Len", now has his own solo page at MySpace: www.myspace.com/thelegendarylen
A Friend of the Deceased
Barber Of Siberia
Carla's Song
Dead Man Walking
East/West
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
La Haine
Little Big Man
Once Were Warriors
Prisoner Of The Mountains
Rabbit Proof Fence
Run Lola Run (Lola Rennt)
The Shawshank Redemption
Silent Tongue
Soldier Blue
This Is England
Thunderheart
War on Democracy ( John Pilger )
Water
The War On Democracy UK Cinema Trailer
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Fallujah - The Hidden Massacre
This is pretty difficult to watch, but tells the truth of what took place in Fallujah.
Due to the horrific images in this documentary, I would recommend only folks of 18 years and above to watch it.
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"Lilya 4-Ever" (???? 4-EVER) - a harrowing drama of the destitution experienced by so many in Eastern Europe which very often leads to the same result as portrayed in the film - human trafficking.
Doctor Who ,
Life On Mars ,
Judge John Deed ,
Torchwood , Heroes , Into The West , Dead Ringers , Have I Got News For You , Black Books , Red Dwarf , 24 , (The Original) Star Trek , Hawaii Five-0 , Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea , The Power Of Nightmares
Black Books - "Grapes of Wrath" (Season 1, Episode 3)
"Look at all the colours - well, yellow!"
Any by Christopher Hill , Geoffrey Robertson QC ,
John Grisham , C.S. Lewis , Frank Peretti , Michael Crichton , George Orwell , Martin Cruz Smith , Billy Bragg's 'The Progressive Patriot' , Martin Shaw's biography etc...
Trapped by A Culture Of Disbelief
The Battle of the Beanfield
Currently reading:
The Putney Debates 1647
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A note of observation about heroes is in order here first I think: Don't put people on a pedestal because they are celebrities. No-one is perfect and you can rest assured that if you meet celebrities you admire that they will turn out to be just normal people with just as many faults and weaknesses as anyone else.
The real heroes are those who have made a difference to this world or even just one single person by how they live their lives. Here are some of those who have inspired me over the years:
John Lilburne ,
Thomas Paine ,
Michael Collins ,
Victor Jara ( try this link as well! ),
Joe Strummer ,
Martin Shaw ,
Tony Benn ,
Captain Igor Anatolyevich Britanov of Russian nuclear submarine K-219
Sergei Preminin of the K-219 crew who stopped a nuclear meltdown that would have made Chornobyl look insignificant.
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